Neta Pulvermacher, Artistic Director

Neta Pulvermacher, Artistic Director
est. 1986
Our mission
seeks to cultivate full creative expression among
people through the values of Creation,
Mentorship, and Community involvement.
We envision
a comprehensive theatrical art form that approximates how the mind perceives
reality (true or imagined), including the chaos inherent in our contemporary
existence. By re-thinking the traditional division of labor between visual artists,
musicians, media-makers and performers, we strive to create a new cinematic
language that merges movement, music, symbolism, images and spoken
language, giving an expression to the human experience and condition.
We are
Artistic Director,
Dancers/Collaborators,
Neta Pulvermacher
Karen Harvey
Meghan Merril
Robin Neveu
Matt Reeves
Colette Krogol
Stacy Martorana
Rebecca Warner
Anthony Whitehurst
Administrative director,
Kristen Schifferdecker
Neta Pulvermacher
“Extraordinary… Powerful and Moving…
Bittersweet poetry.”
(The Village Voice)
Neta Pulverma cher (artistic director, resident choreographer) was born in
Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan, Israel, and graduated from Juilliard in 1985. Since
founding the Neta Dance Company in 1987 she has choreographed over 65
works for her company and other companies and institutions around the world.
In New York, the company has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop,
Danspace Project, The Joyce Theater, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Series,
Symphony Space, The Flea Theater and The Kitchen among others. The
company has enjoyed touring throughout the U.S., Israel (Israel Festival),
Europe, Costa Rica and Canada in addition to its noted collaborations with
avant-guard musicians and composers, such as Roy Nathanson and The Jazz
Passengers, John Zorn and Masada, Anthony Coleman, Yuval Gabay and the
English rock band XTC among others.
Neta's artistic vision and The Neta Dance Company have received support
from the NEA, NYFA, The Jerome Foundation, Mary Flager Cary Charitable
Trust, Maxine Greene Foundation and The Greenwall Foundation among
others; and she received a special choreography award from Bessie
Schoenberg (1995). Neta also is the founder, curator and producer of the
critically acclaimed A.W.A.R.D. Show! Series held at Joyce Soho where dance
artists compete for a production and creation grant of $10,000, which is
awarded based on a combination of a panel and audience vote.
Company Highlights
• 20 Years of artistic exploration celebrated with NETRO, a two-week
retrospective at the Flea Theater in 2005
• Jose Limón Company commissions Neta Pulvermacher
work through the MANCC Free- To Rep Residency
to create a new
• NYC Engagements at DTW, Danspace Project, the Joyce Theater, The
Kitchen, Symphony Space, Central Park’s SummerStage, Joe’s Pub, Dixon
Place, among others
• Touring throughout U.S., Canada, Poland, Israel, Europe, and Costa Rica.
• Residencies at MIT, U.S. Embassies in Minsk- Belarus and Belgrade (Serbia),
Roger Williams University, George Mason University, University of Florida,
Manhattanville College and Barnard University, among others.
• Gotta Go (2006) tours to American Dance Festival ‘06
• Annual choreographic residencies in Israel at the Matte Asher Dance
Workshop and the Klor Music and Dance Center.
• Annual creative and teaching residencies in Alaska.
Selected Reviews
“[Air is] a little slice of heaven… Ms Pulvermacher [has a]
frisky musicality and aptitude for stillness” (Gia Kourlas, 2007)
“Gotta Go, Welcome To My Garden and Air, were
choreographed as a trilogy and explored death and the afterlife. Whatever
death is - its mystery, sadness, release, journey- Pulvermacher’s trilogy
embodied it wonderfully and provocatively through a mixture of quirky
theatrics, sophisticated aesthetics and solid modern dance vocabulary.” (2007)
“The wild imagination of choreographer Neta Pulvermacher
is highly infectious. Pulvermacher's contagious fancy
motivates not only her fellow artists but her audience as well. - When tickled by
such an inconceivable combination of ideas, one is both riveted by the
incredible goings-on and stimulated to unleash one's own imagination” (Lisa Jo
Sagolla)
“Eclectic spirited repertoire… dancers move with stately stop
action in the adagio and rocket through the Allergros in such
intricate, quick trajectories that it’s a wonder they don’t collide” (May 2005)
"Pulvermacher's
choreography
is
fierce
and
uncompromising. Her movement never whispers nor minces meaning. She has
mastered a style characterized by fragmentation, by shards of emotion and
physicality fused in flight." (Carolyn Kahn)
“Despite her small size, Neta Pulvermacher is a big,
aggressive mover whose work illuminates and stretches her dancers. Rainbow
Girl, A fictionalized documentary, underscored Pulvermacher’s talent for
dance-drama”. (July 2005)
More on the company
We enjoy finding innovative ways to express our mission to full creative
expression through the values of Creation, Mentorship, and Community.
In addition to creating new works, we:
• Engage youth (age 5 - college age) near
our NYC-base at Our Children’s
Foundation with creative workshops that
blend movement, arts & crafts, and
music; and with open showings of our
work followed by Q&A’s to make dance
better understood and enjoyed.
• Produce the A.W.A.R.D. Show! @ Joyce
Soho, a critically acclaimed performance
series of choreographers from around
the world that is dedicated to nurturing
creativity in dance and performance and
to encouraging an open and thoughtful
dialogue between audience and artists
in a lab-like setting.
• Teach company repertory on University
students regularly across the U.S. as well
as in Israel.
• Foster a dual-city and state home for the
company in NYC and in Gainesville
Florida with annual teaching and
creative residencies in NYC and in
Florida at the University of Florida,
where company member engage in
teaching, choreographing and mentoring
dance students.
Contact us:
449 West 125th Street Apt # 5D
New York, New York 10027
212.866.4626
www.netacompany.org
Artistic Director, Neta Pulvermacher
[email protected]
For Booking Information:
Kristen Schifferdecker or Neta Pulvermacher
917.478.9928 or 212. 866.4626